SB 26: Behavioral Health Licensing Amendments
This bill opens up the mental health professional licensing scheme to allow for more professionals to practice, as well as provide additional services.
SB 143: Improving Veterans Licensure Opportunities
This bill would give additional time to active duty service members to renew their occupational licenses when returning from deployment.
How Patrick Mahomes’s Haircut Demonstrates the Ridiculousness of Occupational Licensing
Mr. Bonds is clearly a qualified barber, as shown by one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL trusting him with his hair, so why should he possibly even face criminal penalties for cutting hair in another state?
What Does Occupational Licensure Have to Do with Mental Health? A Lot.
Thankfully, policymakers — especially in Utah — are working to help meet the state’s demand for mental health practitioners by improving the portability of licenses while decreasing variations in their requirements.
Relocation Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your License
With these compacts, if you are a licensed physical therapist in Texas and Texas has engaged in a compact with Utah, you could move to Utah and immediately begin work in your profession.
Utah lawmakers just made it easier to earn a living
Utahns and local businesses across the state are still struggling to find the workers necessary to help run their businesses or provide necessary services — and the government is partly to blame.